Christine commenced her legal career at a large New York City law firm, where she represented private equity clients and their portfolio companies. She served as a lead attorney on both domestic and international leveraged buyout transactions, recapitalizations, mergers, venture capital/growth equity investments, and restructurings.

Christine’s interest in devoting her law career to emerging businesses began as an analyst at the Silicon Valley office of a major investment bank, and in business development at a Silicon Valley technology start-up.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Access International Law Group / Gamma Law, Senior Associate, San Francisco, CA

Kirkland & Ellis, Associate, New York, NY

CIBC Oppenheimer, Analyst, Menlo Park, CA

EDUCATION

Northwestern University School of Law, J.D.

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, M.B.A.

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, B.S. in Economics, cum laude

University of Pennsylvania, B.A. in International Relations, cum laude

BAR ADMISSIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

California

New York

PERSONAL

Christine is originally from Chicago, Illinois. She attended college in Philadelphia and began her career in Menlo Park, CA. She returned to Chicago to pursue her JD/MBA degree and then worked in New York for seven years. Christine was very happy to return to the Bay Area in 2011 and loves spending time with her husband and daughter, hiking, cooking and travelling the world.